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...that can be put at McNamara's door-and the seriousness of the logistics snarl did not become apparent to McNamara until November. A well-founded anecdote has it that when McNamara learned the extent of the difficulty at a Saigon briefing, he also discovered that General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., the Pacific commander, had anticipated the trouble in September...
...hell didn't you tell me?" demanded McNamara, as subordinates of Wheeler and Sharp looked on bug-eyed. "Why, damn it, I could have had the 8,000 logistics men that we need here today-even if I had to go out and pull them in off the street...
Died. Bryan Winslow Newkirk, 77, Canadian financier, a North Carolina-born wheeler-dealer who promoted Quebec copper and Saskatchewan oil into a network of 61 companies with assets of $30 million, all of which made him a big man in Canada but a fugitive to the U.S. Government for his refusal to pay an estimated $400,000 in taxes on his across-the-border stock operations; of a heart attack; in London, England. Said Newkirk: "They can go to hell. I'm a Canadian citizen, and they can't touch me." Nor could they...
...made it in other ways. The bombers usually busy over North Viet Nam were put to work blasting the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, flying as many as 250 sorties a day against Hanoi's pipeline, which was taking advantage of the bombing pause. And General Wheeler, back from a swing through Southeast Asia, announced that, should the peace offensive fail, he would immediately ask the President for a resumption of bombing the North...
...problem is that, either by choice or technical incompetence, Wheeler and his actors don't vary their dramatic diction from scene to scene. The result is heavy-handed and curiously flat. We are left with the impression that Brecht is haltingly trying to say that it's hard cheese when Big People, like SS officers, make things tough on Little People, like Jews and Communists. I think the play is worth more than that. It is always simple-minded to present Brecht as a Champion of Liberal Causes, or to make his works play like second-rate Odets. But this...